"When I was a little boy I was living in Dayton, Ohio, and I dreamed of one day finding my way to Hollywood to be an actor," Lowe said. "And if you would have told me back then that I would be alongside Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Newman, I never ever would have believed it."

Born in Virginia in 1964 and raised in Dayton, Lowe got his start in local TV and theater at 8-years-old. His family moved to Malibu, Calif. where he joined the cast of a short-lived ABC show, then got his first of four Golden Globe nominations for playing a high school baseball player with heart disease on a CBS TV movie Thursday's Child.

The late '80s brought Lowe a sex scandal and a series of flops in dramatic roles, but he bounced back as a comic actor in the '90s with Wayne's World, Tommy Boy and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. He followed those with an Emmy-nominated role as White House spin doctor Sam Seaborn in The West Wing.

He became a bestselling author with his autobiography Stories I Only Tell My Friends and memoir Love Life.

Lowe now co-stars with Savage on the new show The Grinder where Lowe plays an actor who portrayed a lawyer on TV and returns to his hometown believing he can run his family's law firm. The actor was considered instrumental in getting the show made.

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